Timon 🛠

@timonsku
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"My Electronics Therapist" - Kate

Freelance Embedded Systems/Electronics R&D for work.

Hardware hacking for fun
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Timon 🛠4d ago
OSHWA4d ago
We've had some pretty dang cool badges over the years of the Open Hardware Summit existing! From PCBs to e-textiles to lego we've explored lots of ways to play with #badgelife and this year will be no different.
While it's still in production for #OHS2026 you can think SAO header, & your random extras: the LEDs you've had sitting, the weird button you haven't found a home for, IC's you ordered too much of & let's prevent some e-waste with badge hacking!
Get your tickets: https://ticket.nodeforum.org/OHS26/
Timon 🛠5d ago

uuuh, I think that is not a USB device...

I guess this is just straight up UART, goes to a ESP32 without any IC inbetween

Timon 🛠6d ago

Seeing this EV conversion is making my neck hair stand up.
Rebuilding a high voltage car battery willy nilly in some completely different configuration while clearly not knowing what the fuck he's doing 😬😬

At some point a car guy like that is gonna electrocute himself

https://youtu.be/7PLC-KfezNc

FULL BUILD: Affordable EV Conversion, only $6000!

YouTube
Timon 🛠6d ago
EMF tickets ✅️
Timon 🛠Mar 20
OSHWAMar 18

The 2026 Open Hardware Summit is coming up this May in Berlin.

Have an idea for where the 2027 Summit should be? OSHWA just opened the call for hosts. Find out more and submit an expression of interest by April 15:

https://oshwa.org/announcements/host-the-2027-open-hardware-summit/

Show threadTimon 🛠Mar 19
@whitequark fair!
Show threadTimon 🛠Mar 19
@whitequark hm, maybe I missed out on those efforts then. I only seen many failed proposal, maybe I need to dig deeper again to see what has been happening.
Show threadTimon 🛠Mar 19
@whitequark Which, fair for the financial burden but the technical ground work needs to be more foundational to make package management a more natural first party aspect of Python, which I think we discussed before and realize is not straight forward but still think can see significant improvement over the current state.
Show threadTimon 🛠Mar 19
@whitequark Yea that is fair.
My issue is less with OpenAI specifically and more that ultimate control for cruicial infrastructure is in the hands of an unreliable actor. A neutral foundation is always an important layer of protection.
More a critique of governance.
I also have not really seen any desire by CPython to even start tackling this, irrespective of the available funds to realize the project. It was consistently pushed off to be "solved by community"
Timon 🛠Mar 19

And another reason why Python packaging needs to gets fixed upstream. You can't have the languages package management be treated as a thing to be implemented by third parties.
Please CPython, finally learn from node and Rust on how to do this properly.

https://astral.sh/blog/openai

Astral to join OpenAI

Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.